A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
- Alan Watts Quote

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
- Alan Watts Quote

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
- Alan Watts Quote

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
- Alan Watts Quote

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
- Alan Watts Quote

Faith is a state of openness or trust.
- Alan Watts Quote

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
- Alan Watts Quote

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
- Alan Watts Quote

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
- Alan Watts Quote

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
- Alan Watts Quote

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.
- Alan Watts Quote

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
- Alan Watts Quote

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
- Alan Watts Quote

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
- Alan Watts Quote

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
- Alan Watts Quote

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
- Alan Watts Quote

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
- Alan Watts Quote

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
- Alan Watts Quote

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
- Alan Watts Quote

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
- Alan Watts Quote

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
- Alan Watts Quote

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
- Alan Watts Quote

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
- Alan Watts Quote

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
- Alan Watts Quote

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
- Alan Watts Quote